When I last had a quiet word with Jutta Dierks, Managing Director of Volkswagen Group Australia, it was at the recent local launch of the Volkswagen Golf VI. Talk inevitably turned to the hi-po GTI and how long it would take to arrive in Australian showrooms.

With the Australian market traditionally one of the last to [...]

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We’ve driven the base model, spied the “concept” and drooled over a smattering of leaked images, but now it’s finally here: the full low-down on Volkswagen’s latest hot hatch flagship, the Golf GTI.

Styling is classic GTI, and is virtually identical to that of the GTI concept that was unveiled in Paris last year. Red-rimmed honeycomb [...]

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Volkswagen has taken the diesel-electric running gear and plug-in charging system of its previous Golf V based TwinDrive hybrid, and transferred it into the new Golf VI.

In addition to giving its fuel-sipping hybrid prototype a fresh new look, VW has allocated 20 of the Golf TwinDrives to be entered into a German government-sponsored trial designed to determine the [...]

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